Identifying loci affecting trait variability and detecting interactions in genome-wide association studies

Nature Genetics

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2018, Pages 1608-1614

  Young, Alexander I ^a,b   Wauthier, Fabian L ^a,c   Donnelly, Peter ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOBANK; BODY MASS; BRITISH CITIZEN; CCNL1 GENE; DISPERSION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GIPR GENE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; LOGLINEAR MODEL; LYPLAL1 GENE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; PHENOTYPE; PPARG GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOFTWARE; TCF7L2 GENE; UNITED KINGDOM; VARIANCE; ZNF668 GENE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY COMPOSITION; EPISTASIS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; MALE; MORPHOMETRY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIOLOGICAL SPECIMEN BANKS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SOFTWARE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 85055087277     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41588-018-0225-6     Document Type: Article

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